VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Virginia Cancer Institute, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 2, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

6,258

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Virginia Cancer Institute, Inc. →

Virginia Cancer Institute, Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-10-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 6,258 individuals. An employee was victimized by an email phishing scheme, compromising ePHI including names, DOBs, addresses, SSNs, and treatment info. The entity strengthened safeguards and provided phishing awareness training.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 2, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,258 affectedView incident

Name: Virginia Cancer Institute, Inc.
norm: virginia cancer institute
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Virginia Cancer Institute, Inc.
norm: virginia cancer institute
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,258nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported breach to HHS OCR
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
All employees were provided training to recognize and respond to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
All employees were provided training to recognize and respond to fraudulent email communications
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Oct 2, 2020
Raw hash: 1c9b69ce81a3b91d62625a4536634a691ab795323499332db5f7fc07ae29b0f8

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Reporting entityVirginia Cancer Institute, Inc.

Victim entityVirginia Cancer Institute, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseStrengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing